Chapter 5

A grotesque grin stretched across Chloe’s face. She clapped her hands, and seven or eight ragged, foul-smelling vagrants rushed into the hospital room from outside.

The stench made me gag repeatedly.

“Liam said, since you’re so fond of ‘cheating,’ then you should ‘enjoy’ this.”

She had a bodyguard set up a camera, then said with a laugh, “Film this carefully. I want to make sure she can never show her face in public again!”

A flicker of madness flashed in Chloe’s eyes. Hearing her, the vagrants all lunged at me.

I recoiled in terror. “Get away! All of you, get away!”

The vagrants’ hands touched my body, and the pain and revulsion made me tremble uncontrollably.

Just as a vagrant pulled down my pants, Liam appeared at the doorway.

Like I was seeing my savior, I stretched out my hand to him:

“Liam, save me! I truly haven’t cheated! Sarah really is your daughter!”

I had thought that after eight years of marriage, Liam, no matter what, wouldn’t stand by and watch me be humiliated by these vagrants.

But he merely glanced at me, then looked away in disgust. He wrapped his arm around Chloe and said softly,

“How can I let you do these disgusting things yourself?”

“Don’t look, it’s sickening.”

I froze in shock, momentarily forgetting to struggle.

Eight years of marriage!

He was the one who, back then, held me and personally promised to love me forever, to cherish me for a lifetime!

Now, in his eyes, I was something dirty!

A surge of pure hatred ignited every fiber of my being. I grabbed a fruit knife from the bedside table and screamed,

“Don’t come any closer! If you do, I’ll kill you!”

The vagrants exchanged nervous glances. Seeing my desperate, reckless demeanor, they actually didn’t dare to move forward.

A flicker of malice crossed Chloe’s eyes. She huddled against Liam’s chest, feigning fear. “Liam, I’m so scared! Is Sister-in-law challenging your authority like this? Never mind, don’t let me cause trouble between you two. Liam, as long as you’re happy, just send me to jail.”

Her words, feigning noble self-sacrifice, moved Liam deeply.

The next second, he actually grabbed a nearby stool and brutally swung it at me.

I was hit in the head, and the knife immediately dropped to the floor.

“What are you waiting for? She might be a bit old, but I guarantee you’ve never tasted a woman like her in your life! What are you waiting for, go!”

Hearing him, the vagrants swarmed me.

My hands and feet were grabbed and held down.

Wearing light summer clothes, it took less than a minute for my clothes and pants to be ripped off. I was left in just my underwear, exposed in a humiliating position before everyone.

The vagrants’ thick lips roamed over my body, and their foul stench filled my nostrils.

I screamed,

“Liam, if you dare do this to me, my dad will never let you get away with it!”

Liam scoffed coldly. “Your dad? Didn’t your dad die years ago?”

He sighed, feigning generosity. “Alice, I told you before. If you just hand over the evidence now and kneel and kowtow 99 times to Chloe, how about I let you go? You don’t want your compromising photos all over Silverwood tomorrow, do you?”

My skin was torn by the vagrants’ teeth. I endured the excruciating pain and screamed, “You wish! I’ll never let you get away with this! Never!”

Liam, enraged, bellowed, “Are you just going to stand there talking?! Each of you, get on with it! I’d like to see who will protect an orphan like you besides me!”

A bolder vagrant immediately dropped his pants and climbed onto me.

Just as he was about to make his move, a gunshot echoed, and the vagrant’s skull shattered, sending him tumbling off the bed.

Everyone was startled by the sudden turn of events.

The next moment, the thunderous roar of helicopters filled the air outside the window.

Liam looked over in fear, only to see dozens of sleek, all-black helicopters hovering just outside the hospital room.

Then, a squad of highly-trained bodyguards stormed into the room.

“I’d like to see who dares lay a hand on my daughter!”

A furious roar erupted from outside. Hearing that familiar voice, tears welled up in my eyes.

Seeing my dad rush in, I cried, “Dad!”

My dad saw my miserable state and instantly rushed over in anguish, but Chloe immediately stepped in front of him: